Pyongyang Myeonok, Nonhyeon-dong
Behind Eulji Hospital in Apgujeong sits Pyongyang Myeonok, probably the most famous naengmyeon place in Gangnam. It is a bit pricey for lunch, but luckily I got to visit with people from work. Whenever I have …
Behind Eulji Hospital in Apgujeong sits Pyongyang Myeonok, probably the most famous naengmyeon place in Gangnam. It is a bit pricey for lunch, but luckily I got to visit with people from work. Whenever I have …
Sandong Gyojagwan in Apgujeong is a restaurant that uses good ingredients, cooks with care, and charges a reasonable (which is to say, not cheap) price for it. Even if it is a bit pricey, it is nowhere near ho…
For personal reasons I left this blog untouched for almost a year, and now I am picking it back up. As you get older, there just are not enough hours in the day. The one silver lining, if you can call it that,…
Inaniwa Yosuke is a well-known inaniwa udon house from Japan. In Korea, a soba or udon shop brings to mind a noodle specialist, but in Japan a lot of them are actually izakaya. You have drinks with a variety o…
A friend who lives in New York came to Seoul this spring to get married. A few of us from the same school decided to have dinner together, so we went to a hanjeongsik (Korean course meal) restaurant near Gangn…
A while back I visited Louis Cinq in Apgujeong Rodeo soon after it opened and was blown away by chef Kim Moa’s cooking. I heard she had left Louis Cinq to go study in France, and before I knew it she was…
Lately a lot of good restaurants have opened up in Haebangchon. This is a place I had only heard the name of before, and I finally made it there after it got famous. Olde Knives is a bar with the concept of se…
Pyeonuibang is a Chinese restaurant in Yeonnam-dong famous for its mandu. The place looks shabby, but it had a good reputation among bloggers, and then one day it suddenly got on TV and became really hard to g…
Yeomyeong in Dohwa-dong is a place that became famous thanks to Rainy’s blog. It has been around for quite a while, but it had escaped bloggers’ notice until it moved near Oebaek, and since then it…
I am putting together all the posts from my visits to Maison M’O from this spring through the summer. First in, first out is my rule, but if I do not do it this way I will never get them all up. T…
Bokhwaru is an old Chinese restaurant run by an ethnic Chinese family, tucked inside Bupyeong Market near Bupyeong Station. I heard it is the oldest Chinese restaurant still in business. It has the history, bu…
One sunny weekend in March I had a wedding to attend in Jamsil. Having come all that way, there was no way I would skip the good places in the neighborhood. I could skip lunch at the venue, which saves a meal …